The sharks start to circle when they smell blood in the water  The viewers tune in to watch the unfortunate suffer  Bombarded with a never ending scourge of destruction  Seduced my the media’s macabre illustration  We have front row seats for the televised slaughter  Anxiously feeding on what the news has to offer  Satisfying our morbid curiosity for human tragedy  Consumed by the media feeding frenzy  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  Blood attracts the media to the feeding frenzy  We’ve become a nation of ghoulish blood-lusting addicts  Bewitched by the drama of Hollywood-style theatrics  The right lighting and music create the dire sense of urgency  Where every single segment is an absolute emergency  We’ve become numb to the violence through sheer repetition  It takes more and more gore to secure our attention  More gruesome descriptions, more graphic desecratings  By all of the networks competing for ratings  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  Blood attracts the media to the feeding frenzy  School shooting- the media feeds  Child abduction- the media feeds  Gang slaying- the media feeds  Terrorist bombing- the media feeds  We’re so easily enticed by the corporate blood-soaked approach  We resent what we see but we can’t help to watch  So what are the long-term effects on our society?  What is the result of all this spoon-fed anxiety?  Instilled fear, hysteria and panic attacks  A nation’s emotional state on the verge of collapse  Too terrified to venture out in the world our TV depicts  So just lock your door and stay tuned to get your next fix  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds  Blood attracts the media to the feeding frenzy